Comments on: Revive Double Click http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/385 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:55:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ward Poulos http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/385#comment-44 Ward Poulos Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:14:34 +0000 http://tworivers.com/blog/?p=385#comment-44 Great post - also enjoyed your talk at UIE Web App Masters. Zenfolio is an example of a site that uses double click well (in the photographer's logged-in photo management interface to access the photo from the thumbnail page). I have grown to love this feature and the way they implemented it. I think Firewheel Design worked on this interface if I'm not mistaken. Great post – also enjoyed your talk at UIE Web App Masters.

Zenfolio is an example of a site that uses double click well (in the photographer’s logged-in photo management interface to access the photo from the thumbnail page). I have grown to love this feature and the way they implemented it. I think Firewheel Design worked on this interface if I’m not mistaken.

]]> By: Daniela Meleo http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/385#comment-39 Daniela Meleo Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:19:23 +0000 http://tworivers.com/blog/?p=385#comment-39 Hi Hagan, I'm looking into a very similar interaction now for an enterprise app. The main benefit for us is the flexibility to include a variety of relevant actions for any given row in the table. As the app evolves, there may be additional actions we'll add to the menus. Actions can only be performed on one item at a time. (Our tables need to display a number of columns of data so we can't take up column space user actions. ) The app will need a number of similar tables for different categories of items, all of which have associated actions, so I expect users will learn the interaction quickly as they'll encounter it often. The design I'm proposing displays a "hover action" icon as the user mouses over the table rows, indicating that something can be done with the row. The user clicks on the icon to see the row's menu of actions. In our case most of the menu items will involve navigation to more detailed related content for that item. Last fm uses this method in its Top Tracks sections e.g: http://www.last.fm/music/Jim+White I'd be interested to hear if anyone has encountered any usability issues with this approach.. ciao - Daniela Hi Hagan, I’m looking into a very similar interaction now for an enterprise app. The main benefit for us is the flexibility to include a variety of relevant actions for any given row in the table. As the app evolves, there may be additional actions we’ll add to the menus.
Actions can only be performed on one item at a time. (Our tables need to display a number of columns of data so we can’t take up column space user actions. ) The app will need a number of similar tables for different categories of items, all of which have associated actions, so I expect users will learn the interaction quickly as they’ll encounter it often.

The design I’m proposing displays a “hover action” icon as the user mouses over the table rows, indicating that something can be done with the row. The user clicks on the icon to see the row’s menu of actions. In our case most of the menu items will involve navigation to more detailed related content for that item.

Last fm uses this method in its Top Tracks sections e.g:
http://www.last.fm/music/Jim+White

I’d be interested to hear if anyone has encountered any usability issues with this approach..
ciao – Daniela

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